"Welcome back to Mystic Falls," Klaus grinned.

It was night and they had arrived a few hours earlier. Klaus parked the truck near the high school where he knew the people he was looking for would be. He had been breaking Stefan's neck all afternoon and when it was time he went inside the school to chase after Elena, leaving Rebekah and Julie with an unconscious Stefan.

"So you lived here, before you gave it all up to chase after my brothers?"

"Yope," Julie answered, not looking down from the stars.

"Why did you do it?" she asked. "Leave, I mean. You gave up a lot for my brother. Which my other brother tells me you had just met."

Julie sighed. That was a question she kept asking herself. The answer involved Katherine so she chose to go around it. "I had a choice to make," she said. "Stay in school with no idea what to do next, or "chase" after your brothers," she shrugged. "Maybe it was stupid...But...I just didn't want to be alone anymore..." Leaving with Katherine was the best choice she ever made. She made a new friend, found out what she was and got closer to her goal, which was to get Elijah back. She seemed so close, yet so far away.

"I know what you mean..." Rebekah said, she seemed lost in her thoughts for a moment.

"Staying in school while Elijah was lying dead in a coffin seemed...wrong," she said. "I had no good reasons to stay and all the reasons to leave," she shrugged. "But what do I know?" she sighed. "I'm just a stupid human, maybe Elijah doesn't even care about me."

"You're wrong," the blonde told her. "You're the reason Elijah didn't kill Klaus," she said which confused the stupid human.

"What do you mean?"

"Klaus told me what happened the night of the sacrifice. Elijah was about to kill him when he told him that if he did, you'd die..."

Julie couldn't believe what she was hearing. She looked up at the vampire and shook her head. "Elijah wanted to kill Klaus because he thought you were lost forever," she said. "There was no changing his mind. He didn't kill Klaus because he told him that he could get you back."

"How do you know this?" Rebekah frowned. Julie wasn't supposed to know that.

Luckily, they were interrupted by Stefan gasping his way back to life, once again.

"Ha, he lives," Rebekah smiled, amused, looking down at the vampire.

"What happened?" he asked.

"You took a beating," she told him. "My brother's been breaking your neck all afternoon, quite the temper."

"Why did he bring us back to Mystic Falls?" he asked.

"You can stop playing dum now," she told him and Stefan gave a quick look to Julie who discreetly nodded. Yes, he knew Elena was still alive. "It didn't take him long to figure out what you've been hiding."

"I'm not hiding anything," he said, getting up. "I've done everything Klaus has asked me too."

"No, you just failed to mention that the doppelganger was still alive."

Stefan tried not to show any emotion. "Where is Klaus now?" he asked.

"With any luck, ripping that cow's bloody head off," she said with a smile.

Julie shivered at her threat. She worried about Elena even though she knew Damon would probably protect her and she had a dark thought, wishing for a second that he'd die doing it. She also worried about Katherine. She had told her she was going back to Mystic Falls and if Klaus saw her here, she would be as good as dead.

A few seconds later, Stefan was jumping on Rebekah, falling off the truck. "Where is she?"

"You really do love her, don't you?" she growled before she pushed him away and got back on her feet. Julie rolled her eyes and sat in the truck, watching the two vampires fight. "Consider me jealous," she said, stabbing him with an iron bar.

"Won't Klaus get mad if you kill him?" Julie asked.

"He's not dead," she shrugged. "He'll be back. Come with me." Julie frowned as Rebekah asked her to step out of the truck.

"Where are we going?"

"I'm sure my brother needs my help in there," she said.

"He doesn't need my help..."

Rebekah smiled and chuckled. "I can't leave you here, you'll remove the dagger from Elijah's heart. And you're so naïve you might do the same for my other siblings. Klaus can't have that," she said, closing the truck.

"Don't you want your brothers back?"

"I do," she nodded. "Very much. But Klaus doesn't."

"So? There's four of you and one of him!"

"You wouldn't understand, Julie. It's a family matter. I can't betray Klaus. And I won't. Now come."

Julie followed Rebekah in the high school. She didn't want to see anything that was going to happen next. Klaus did bad things when he was angry.

They walked in Tyler and Caroline kissing in the hallway.

"You two are adorable," Rebekah interrupted them.

"Uh, do we know you?" Caroline asked before she saw Julie behind the stranger. "Julie, oh my God, are you okay?"

"I'm fine," she nodded.

"You're Caroline," Rebekah said. "Elena's friend which makes you Tyler, the werewolf," she grinned.

"And who are you?" Caroline, asked putting herself between Rebekah and Tyler.

"I'm the new girl," she said before she broke her neck.

"Caroline!" Tyler shouted. But he couldn't do anything because the next thing the blonde did was take him by the arms and immobilize him.

"Don't hurt him!" Julie asked Rebekah who chuckled.

"Hurt him? I'm not going to hurt him. But Klaus might," she smiled.

"Get off of me!" Tyler growled as they entered the gymnasium and joined Klaus, Elena, Matt, Bonnie and two other students Julie recognized from being in Elena's class. They were crying but none of them looked physically hurt.

"Hush now!" Rebekah answered.

"I'd like you all to meet my sister, Rebekah," Klaus said with an evil smile. "Word of warning, she can be quite mean," he grinned.

"Don't be an ass," she said, pushing Tyler from her to her brother.

"Leave him alone!" Elena told Klaus.

"Julie are you okay?" Bonnie asked. There was worry and fear in her voice.

"I'm fine," Julie answered with a cold tone and looked away. She still didn't trust any of them. She was still angry for what they did to Elijah.

"I'm going to make this simple...," Klaus started to say. "Every time I attempt to turn a werewolf into a vampire hybrid, they die during the transition. It's quite horrible, actually," he continued before he bit his wrist and fed Tyler with his blood. "I need you to find a way to save my hybrids Bonnie. And for Tyler's sake...You better hurry." Next thing he did was break Tyler's neck making all his friends, including Julie, gasp with horror.

"He killed him," Matt breathed out.

"He's not dead," Elena told him. "Klaus' blood will turn him into a vampire," she explained, walking around, trying not to panic.

"And if Bonnie's successful, he'll live through his transition," Klaus said. "Go on, then. Go fetch your grimoires and enchantments and what-not. I'll hold on to Elena...for safe keeping," he said, taking the doppelganger by the arm.

Matt and Bonnie rushed outside, they had no time to waste if they wanted to have a small chance to save Tyler.

"So, this is the latest doppelganger," Rebekah said, looking a terrified Elena up and down. "The original one was much prettier..." Her statement made both Elena and Julie frowned. "The original one"?

"Enough Rebekah..." Klaus sighed. "Take the wolf boy elsewhere, would you?"

Rebekah smiled before she dragged Tyler out of the gymnasium.

"Just ignore her. Pretty little thing," Klaus whispered in Elena's ear, just for the fun of scaring her.

Julie sighed and sat down on a bench, hoping Bonnie would find a way to help Tyler. Klaus let go of Elena and sat down next her. Julie couldn't remember the name of the two other students that were held hostage here by Klaus and she wondered if she ever knew them.

"What's wrong, love?" Klaus asked. Julie was astonished by his question. Wasn't the answer obvious?

"What's wrong?" she repeated a little loud. "You just killed Tyler!" she shouted.

"I didn't know he was your friend," Klaus said but he didn't really care.

"He wasn't," Julie told him. "But that's not the point. It's doesn't matter if he's my friend or not. You killed someone," she said like anything she could say on the matter was going to make him feel remorse or guilt.

"To be clear, he might survive," Klaus told her, not trying to excuse himself. Julie sighed and breathed out a laugh. Not because she was amused. She could say all the right things to him, it wouldn't change him a bit.

"It doesn't matter if he dies, then?" she asked with a broken voice. Klaus looked away and sighed.

"It matters because it will mean your witch friend still hasn't figured out what's wrong," he said.

"She's not my friend," is all Julie answered.

"Stefan?" Elena breathed out. Julie looked at her before she followed her gaze and saw the vampire had just entered the gymnasium.

"Klaus," he said.

"Come to save your damsel, mate?" he asked with a quiet voice without even looking at him. He looked tired but Julie knew he wasn't.

"Come to ask for your forgiveness." Both Julie and Klaus were surprised. She would've bet everything she had that Stefan had come to help Elena. "And pledge my loyalty," he finished.

"Well, you broke that pledge once already," Klaus said. Julie noticed something in his voice. Was it sadness? Was he sad because he thought Stefan was a true friend but all he wanted was to save Elena?

"Elena means nothing to me anymore," Stefan said. Julie saw Elena was hurt by what the vampire had just said. "And whatever you ask of me...I will do."

"Fair enough," Klaus said, getting up. "Let's drink on it," he said, walking towards Elena and her classmates. "Kill them," he said.

The two teenagers started to panic and got up. They had seen enough to know if they ran, Klaus would be faster than them.

"No," Elena said, "Stefan don't! He's not going to hurt me, he's already said..."

But she couldn't finish her sentence as Klaus slapped her so hard she fell on the floor crying.

"Elena!" Julie shouted.

The next second Stefan was jumping on Klaus but the hybrid was stronger and stopped him. "She means nothing to you? Your lies just keep piling up," he said, strangling Stefan with one hand. It was so easy for him it didn't look like such an effort.

Julie rushed towards Elena and helped her on her feet.

"Let her go!" Stefan said. "I'll do whatever you want you have my word!"

"Your word doesn't mean much," Klaus said. "I lived by your word all summer during which time I never had to resort to this..." he said, locking his eyes in the vampire's "Stop fighting," he compelled him.

"Don't do this, don't..." Stefan begged.

"Klaus stop!" Julie shouted but he didn't listen. Why would he?

"I didn't want to. All I wanted was your allegiance. Now I'm going to take it."

"Don't...don't..." Stefan kept begging.

"You will do exactly as I say when I say it. You will not run, you will not hide, you will simply just obey," he said before he let go of the now immobile vampire. "Now kill them, ripper," he grinned, pointing at the girl and the boy.

"No," Elena breathed out but Stefan jumped on the girl and bit her in the neck and then let her fall on the ground unconscious.

"What did you do?" Julie shouted at Klaus who raised an eyebrow and just chuckled.

Julie and Elena watched with horror Stefan drink the others to death.

"It's always nice to see a vampire in his true element," Klaus said. "The species has become such a broody lot."

"No," Elena said. "You did this to him."

"I invited him to the party love," Klaus told her. "He's the one dancing on the table."

"Where is it?!" Rebekah suddenly came back in the room, shouting. "Where is my necklace?"

"What are you talking about?" Klaus sighed.

"She has my necklace, look!" she said, handing her brother Caroline's phone. Klaus look at the picture and saw the necklace around Elena's neck.

"Well, well. More lies," Klaus said.

"Where is it?" Rebekah asked.

"I don't have it anymore," Elena told her.

Wrong answer.

"You're lying!" Rebekah shouted before she sunk her teeth in her neck. The sudden attack make Julie gasp and take one step back. Stefan was about to rush to help Elena but Klaus stopped her first.

"Knock it off!"

"Make her tell me where it is, Nik!" Rebekah asked her brother.

Klaus sighed and turned towards Elena who had fallen on the ground. He slowly squatted down and asked nicely, "Where's the necklace, sweetheart? Be honest."

"I'm telling the truth. Katherine stole it," Elena managed to say despite the pain. She put a hand over her bleeding injury and tried to catch her breath.

"Katerina," Klaus sighed. "Of course. Well, that's unfortunate. If we had the necklace it would make things easier for your witch, but since we're doing this the hard way, let's put a clock on it, shall we?" he said. Julie didn't understand what he meant. There was already a clock on it: Tyler's life. "20 minutes. If Bonnie hasn't found the solution by then, I want you to feed again. Only this time, I want you to feed on Elena. You know you want to."

"No, Klaus!" Elena breathed out. "Don't do this to him."

"Julie, come with us. No one else, leaves. If she tries to run, break her spine," he told Stefan.

Julie wasn't going to follow him but when Rebekah saw she wasn't moving she sighed and took her wrist and gave her a look that made her understand that it wasn't the right time to piss off Klaus.

"Where are we going?" she asked.

"We're taking a walk," Klaus answered.

They looked around the high school in silence, Julie guessed they were looking for Bonnie but they didn't find anyone.

Rebekah took Julie back to the room where Caroline and Tyler were and the werewolf was still "dead". The Original vampire kept playing with the blonde's phone, asking Julie how it worked.

"Where have you been, Julie?" Caroline asked. "When Klaus left town you disappeared with them."

"I followed them," she shrugged, not looking away from the phone's screen, showing Rebekah how to use the clock. She wasn't in the mood to tell her how she spent her summer.

"Alone?" Caroline doubted her. Her questions might get her killed, so Julie decided to make her stop asking.

"It's none of your business," she said. Rebekah looked down at Julie then looked up at Caroline. When the two blondes' gaze met, the Original grinned, happy Caroline and Julie didn't get along.

4 minutes before the count down, Tyler finally "woke up". He gasped and coughed and looked around, confused.

"Where am I?" he asked.

"Tyler..." Caroline started to say, trying to keep a calm voice.

"Don't be shy about it," Rebekah said. She smiled at him and he had never been more confused. "What's going on?" he asked.

"Klaus...is turning you into a vampire," Caroline said. She was trying to find the right words to explain what was happening. But there were no words to say this. "A hybrid. You're in transition."

"Don't leave out the hard part, sweets," Rebekah said. "You'll only survive if your witch is successful. If not...You're pretty much dead," she grinned.

"Rebekah," Julie sighed.

"What?" Rebekah faked innocence. Julie rolled her eyes which made the vampire chuckle. "This is fun."

"For you, maybe," Julie mumbled.

"You're going to be ok," Caroline told Tyler. "Ok? It's gonna be ok," she said. Tyler was feeling sick and was breathing heavily. Julie felt bad for him and for his mother and for Caroline. She really hoped Bonnie was going to find a solution because if she didn't, Klaus wasn't going to stop looking for one which meant more werewolves were going to have to die and she was going to have to watch them all get killed.

"I wonder how she's doing," Rebekah asked. "Tick tock goes the gym clock."

The 20 minutes had passed and Tyler was getting worse by the minute. Rebekah seemed like she couldn't care less but Caroline and Julie worried more and more he wouldn't survive the night. Finally, Klaus came in.

"Well, the verdict's in. The Original witch says the doppelganger should be dead."

"Does that mean we can kill her?" Rebekah asked, happy.

"No. I'm fairly certain it means the opposite," Klaus said.

"What?" Rebekah frowned, confused. Julie didn't get it either. He'd been trying to contact the Original witch for days and now he wasn't going to do what she told him?

"Call it a hunch..." he said, showing Tyler a tube filled with blood. "Elena's blood. Drink it."

"No! No, no, no, Tyler don't!" Caroline told him but Rebekah stopped her as she tried to get in the way.

"If he doesn't feed, he'll die anyway, love," Klaus told her. "Consider this an experiment."

Tyler was trembling and sweating and he could barely stand up. He was desperate, all he knew was he didn't want to die.

"It's ok," Klaus nodded. Tyler hesitated a minute but eventually took the blood and drank it. He spitted out half of it and started convulsing. He fell on the floor, his entire body was shaking. He felt fire in his veins and he screamed because of the pain and then he growled and his eyes turned yellow.

"Well, that's a good sign," Klaus grinned.

Rebekah let go of Caroline who rushed to Tyler's sides to make sure he was fine.

"Now Julie, as fun as it is to have you by my side," Klaus said. "You're free to go."

"You're letting me go?" she asked, surprised.

"I trust you're not leaving town as long as my brother's coffin is in Mystic Falls," he grinned. "So I know where to find you if for whatever reason I need you," he shrugged. "Or if for whatever reason you need me," he winked at her before he walked out of the room.

"It was nice meeting you, Julie," Rebekah said. "Even if it was for only a few days, I rarely got along with my brother's girlfriends," she told her. "I hope we can be friends," she smiled. Julie didn't know if she was being serious or not. She gave her a small smile and politely nodded. The blonde's smile grew bigger and she put Caroline's phone down before she left the room.

Julie took a deep breath. She was free. But she had no idea what she was going to do.

"I'm glad you're ok, Tyler," she said before she walked out of the room too. The hallway was empty though there was blood on the floor. She looked around the empty school she had left too soon and took a deep breath when she stepped outside, enjoying the fresh air of the night.

What a failure she was. How was she going to help Elijah now? She knew the coffins were in town but Klaus had moved the truck and it was impossible for her to remove the dagger now.

She called a cab which wasn't happy to work so late at night and he drove her to the storage where she had left all her furniture, clothes and other stuffs and also her mother's car. She remembered when Katherine helped her put everything in there, asking her what that heavy chest was. She told her she didn't know, she had never managed to open it, but she kept it because it belonged to her mother.